This is needed by TestCases/Posix/coverage-direct.cc
The problem is that the test does:
mkdir <dir>
cd <dir>
cd ..
rm -rf <dir>
<more commands>
the current directory currently looks like "/.../<dir>/../" which doesn't exist when dir is deleted.
at some point we should probably switch to using the os current directory (specially if we want to add subshell), but this is a small incremental improvement.